1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.

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    of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.

    popular?! According to whom?

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      Probably around the time he started writing blog posts about how there’s too many brown people in London, or comparing Romani to invasive predator species?

      Being against a few horrible people doesn’t automatically make you a good guy…

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    Well damn, guess I’ll be cancelling and switching when my subscription renews. Suggestions for replacement?

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    … Can we not just write shit down?

    I don’t understand the need for this password keeper shit outside of a work/corporate environment.

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      The hard password you think of are actually very low entropy and easy to crack, the only good ones are random ones, which are hard to remember (except for the random words ones). It’s impossible to remember 200+ totally random password for a regular human

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      You can’t just write down a secure password. It should be long enough to not be practical to write down on paper.

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      I have more than 300 logins. My password manager handles passkeys, 2FA and has integretad alias creation.

      At some point you just can’t compare.

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      I do write stuff down. In my password manager so it’s always with me all the time and is much more difficult to gain access to than if I were carrying around a notepad. Also, I ain’t got pockets for that, and I’m not buying a wardrobe of cargo pants.

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    I’ve emailed their customer service explaining why I’ll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.

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    I never expected a mid hyprland preconfig to be tied to a person with Nazi views and cause this much issues.

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    I wouldn’t have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.

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      Controversy? Never.

      Sick thing is, you can say the most outrageous shit, and since you have a direct pipeline to billions of people online, you’ll always find some fumb ducks to pay you.

      Welcome to the post-MLM economy! You don’t even influence people, you just say what they want to hear, and they’ll influence others for you! Jesus christ.

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    “popular distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?

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      I vaguely remember hearing about that, but when I searched the community to see what other people use the first link I found was archive.is. Replacing that archive doesn’t really seem to have taken off.

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    Why does this shit distro deserve all this funding and support? There’s many better options doing a lot more for the ecosystem yet this gets the attention. It’s don’t understand.

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      It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.

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          Per @GreenBeard@lemmy.ca’s comment

          I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

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            They aren’t just racist, They also hate the poors and basically anyone that isn’t them.

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              I agree, but I suggest you direct your replies directly to the source comment. I’m just the messenger here.

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      Very seldom is something funded that “deserves” it. The answer is that its’ creator (DHH) is very wealthy and connected.

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      I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

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    “popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”

    I’ve literally never heard of it.

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      I’ve seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There’s definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.

      It’s just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that’s been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they’re familiar with Arch.

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      It’s yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.

      The fact that it’s being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.

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      I’ve heard the name but have not spent the time to find out what it is. I thought it was some immutable distro. I think the same about bazzite and catchy (sp?) which are other distros I see mentioned from time to time and believe are immutable and flatpak-y and that’s all I know. I realise I’m just one data point but I never see a lot about these sorts of distros in my general browsing.

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      I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol

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      yeah this is like a bunch of other internet things where I kinda hate it even seeing it. for me its not a thing of interest.

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      Oh well if you’ve never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?

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    How the fuck is Omarchy “popular”? I’ve been on Linux going on a decade, give or take, and I first knew about it when someone here in Lemmy mentioned that Dell and some other shit companies were proton a few millions on it.

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      It’s popular to a lot of the non Foss tech job devs that want to try Linux after mostly using macOS for Dev work. It comes with keybinds they are familiar woth has a pretty UI by default and is arch base. They probably work for companies that are also right wing so it’s something they don’t care about as much as people in alignment with the Foss ideology.

      Compared to today’s mask off fascism in the states the guy behind Omarchy is pretty tame and probably less mask off evil than the people they work for

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    1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.

    Except… ya just did. Big 'ol cashy money endorsement.

    Or did you forget about that already? Because we didn’t.

    Art / artist.